Week 8 Growth Mindset

              After looking back at my original post about "Growth Mindset",  I have come to find that I have changed my views about my classes. The classes I thought would be hard turned out to be alright, and the class I was excited for, is now my most dreadful class. I feel that it is hard to find motivation for myself, especially since I am not doing too well in my classes right now. I need to manage time better and look ahead of my schedule to do so. I think I manage my life outside of school very well, I just am having a hard time with my classes this semester. I think that I can start to take time out of my Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays to do some of the assignments that are due on Sundays. Leaving all of Sundays' assignments has definitely become my weakness. I could also go ahead and in advance read on Sunday for Monday, and that way I give myself enough time for reading on Tuesday. I feel that being open to comments and feedback has helped me in this class a lot, especially with my portfolio. I want to continue that past the borders of this class.

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Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset

I have learned about the "Growth Mindset", actually very recently. My Introduction to Biochemistry teacher taught our class about it. He didn’t necessarily show us the TED Talks video, but described the main idea of the thought. After learning about it, I found myself to be 50-50 with having the “Growth” and “Fixed” mindset. I realized that with subjects or topics I was interested in, I would have more of a “growth” approach to it; while if I didn’t have any interest in the field, I would have a “fixed” mindset. I have learned that having this growth mindset for my passion and my interests, has helped a lot through out college. I love chemistry, and with this “growth” mindset, I tend to do more practice problems, ask questions, or try to understand why I got something wrong to avoid the problem again.

I chose this meme because it describes exactly how I feel about learning new topics in Chemistry. Photo Credits : Larry Ferlazzo

I don’t get discouraged if I don’t get the best grade on the exam, or even an A in the class. Since it has helped me a lot, I think I will try to apply it to classes I’m not so excited for, such as Quantative Analysis. This class is part of my major, and is one of the more difficult courses. I am worried I might be able to grasp the material in enough time, or not do great in my labs. Therefor, I am definitely interested in learning more about the Growth Mindset, and using it towards this class that I am worried about.